Teach 36 children with limited English to read

The Literacy Master Map Program is a challenge program for students whose English is a second language and who have struggled with some reading problems in a school.

Most of the skills presented in the curricular units are continuously covered throughout a thirty-eight week time period. The skills are worked with more challenging texts and tasks as the student progress from one level to the next. The main goals of our program is reading and challenge yourself to ask questions regarding to get a deeper understanding of the concepts and the main idea of the text.

Before starting the chapter book we worked on basic directions, following oral and written directions as they pertain to the interaction between what is spoken and written. Each student was asked to write and read directions to see how important specific language is to being able to understand each other.

Our first chapter book we are working on is by E.B. White, The Trumpet Of The Swan. We concentrate each week on the vocabulary in one chapter, and comprehension skills. Each chapter has a specific skill the children are asked to work on. The first chapter we looked at the globe to find Canada, and it’s proximity to certain places in the United States.  We also looked at the character profile and compared how the children can improve their character development when they are writing. The following weeks we will work on the author purpose as well as vocabulary and reading comprehension.

Our parents, teachers, and children are happy to be enrolled in this program, and everyone appreciates a great support from Global Giving Foundation. Our special thanks are following to our valuable donors.

Links:

• PENNDCO website
• Project page